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Washes clothes and makes pancakes too?
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Post# 236732   9/15/2007 at 10:25 (6,039 days old) by machinehead ()        

Must be seen to be believed; i certainly did a double take! All i can say is now THIS is multi-tasking! Laundry and breakfast all at once!

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Post# 236784 , Reply# 1   9/15/2007 at 17:17 (6,038 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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What the...?! Has anyone ever heard of such a use for a wringer washer lid?

Post# 236828 , Reply# 2   9/16/2007 at 02:07 (6,038 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

NO, but that thick cast aluminum would make an even heating griddle if you had to make pancakes, bacon or most fried or strangled eggs for a crowd and had a large heat source like a proper cooking fire outside or a wood stove or even a gas or charcoal grill. It could be heated for 20 minutes or so in a 400 degree oven and used to make oven pancakes or at a lower temperature to cook a mess of bacon.

I do not think it would be very attractive as a washer lid after cooking on it. The idea probably came from the throw nothing away mentality of many people who lived through the depression and the closely allied pack rat mentality of "save it because we might have a use for it some day."


Post# 236829 , Reply# 3   9/16/2007 at 04:14 (6,038 days old) by dj-gabriele ()        

Brrr... I had packakes this morning and I wouldn't ever swap my lovely teflon coated pan with that thing!

Post# 236861 , Reply# 4   9/16/2007 at 12:40 (6,037 days old) by djmjlcst (Bloomington, Illinois)        
Cooking on a washer lid? Now I've heard it all!

I can only think of how much Clorox, leftover soap powder, and other chemicals that might have been used BEFORE cooking on this! Even if there were no residue from all those chemicals it just sounds kind of gross to me! Tomturbomatic is right, maybe this did come from some family pack rat mentality of saving it for another use!

I'll stick with the electric skillet or cast iron griddle - thank you!

Mike


Post# 236868 , Reply# 5   9/16/2007 at 14:26 (6,037 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Cooking for a crowd? You could mix the pancake batter in the washer, then use the lid as a griddle. And if you wanted crepes, you could put the cooked pancakes through the wringer!

Post# 236873 , Reply# 6   9/16/2007 at 15:09 (6,037 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

The conditions under which this would have been used as a griddle precluded an electric skillet. It's also sort of fun to imagine the occasions where a griddle this large would have been used long ago. You can wash cast aluminum, scour it with an SOS pad or polish it with a wire wheel until it gets absolutely smooth and is almost non stick, especially if before making pancakes, you put a little vegetable oil on a paper towel and lightly wipe the surface before starting to bake pancakes. Many of you might be too young to remember Club Aluminum cookware, but it was cast aluminum that when brand new had sort of concentric raised ring interior surfaces. Once it was scoured hard a few times with SOS or Brillo pads, it became mirror shiny and smooth. As for laundry residue, no washday was complete without thoroughly rinsing out and wiping dry all parts of the machine, leaving the lid open to let the interior dry out, taking the tension off the rollers in the wringer and leaving the agitator off the spline which was wiped with a bit of grease. One of the major points in the ads for the Bendix Automatic Home Laundry was that it washed, rinsed, extracted, cleaned itself and shut off, all automatically, so cleaning the washing machine was regarded as important. Especially with the cast aluminum tubs and parts, you could not let residue of the alkaline washing products remain on the surfaces or the aluminum would start pitting and developing rough places which could damage laundry. Back when these were the most desired wringer washers, the majority of the people who owned them knew the value of things and took very good care of things that were bought with hard-earned money. You must remember that for many people, a wringer washer was the first step away from doing laundry totally by hand, soaking overnight, scrubbing clothes on a washboard, which meant having your back bent over wash tubs and your hands in water with harsh chemicals like washing soda before the advent of vinyl gloves, boiling whites to bleach them and be sure that soap was dissolved and could rinse away so that none of the cottons and linens would yellow when ironed. It's true that many of the wringer machines found now look rough, but if they do, you have to remember their age and the fact that they were used by poorer and poorer people each time they changed hands and were probably not cared for as well as they were when new. The quality of Maytag cast aluminum was first rate. During World War II, Maytag's aluminum foundry was used to make airplanes. While seeing just the lid remain from a beautiful Maytag Master would make me think of the wonderful machine that was no more, I would have no qualms about eating food prepared on a properly conditioned Maytag cast aluminum cover.

Post# 236894 , Reply# 7   9/16/2007 at 19:30 (6,037 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        

I am thinking the seller probably intends this as cooking outdoors as in camping, some other uncommon uses for household items: sportsmen LOVE ironing boards to scale and clean fish, its the perfect height and cleans up with a bucket of river or lake water. the old pressure canners (the ones with the lid that bolts down), are also in demand, to fry fish and turkeys outside over a LP burner, they tell me,they like the bolt down lid for after cooking since sometimes they reuse the cooking oil for a second weekend, with the top bolted no mess in their SUV or truck if it would overturn on the way home.


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